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CSO MusicNOW & Curator-Composers Announced for ’24–25

Two composers with strong Chicago ties…

Maggie RebergSeptember 10, 2020

The Thrill of Seeing: Scoring The Earliest Movies

George PrestonSeptember 10, 2020

Music Endures: 50 Years of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Keegan MorrisSeptember 10, 2020

Lyric Returns With Free Star-Studded Virtual Gala

Feinstein, Midori, Perlman headline Carnegie Ukraine benefit

Associated PressMay 3, 2022

Soprano Angel Blue, mezzo-sopranos Denyce Graves and Isabel Leonard, and jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant will also appear on the concert.

Echoes of 2006: Jazz Fest returns to New Orleans for 2022

Associated PressApril 29, 2022

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is returning for the first time in three years.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber warns arts ‘at point of no return’

Associated PressSeptember 8, 2020

The Phantom of the Opera composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has told British lawmakers that the arts are "at the point of no return," and urged the government to set a date for theaters to be allowed to reopen.

Quiz: What American Composer Are You?

WFMTSeptember 7, 2020

Take this quiz to find out which dean of American music you're most like! Are you sparse and minimal like Philip Glass? Or do you prefer the sis-boom-bah John Philip Sousa? Do you prefer Samuel Barber's sonic landscapes of America, or Scott Joplin's Ragtime portraits of American life?

Slow music: Chord change in Germany of 639-year organ piece

Associated PressSeptember 5, 2020

Hundreds of fans attended a special kind of musical happening at a church in Germany: a chord change in an organ piece that is supposed to last for an entirety of 639 years.

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